Earlier this year, Disney released an enormous lineup of “basically everything” that the service offers in a prolific Twitter thread and hours-long Youtube teaser, the service highlighted over 600 titles that subscribers will have unlimited access to stream and download. If you are looking to relive your childhood then Disney+ will have you feeling some type of way! Here’s everything you need to know about the streaming service.
What is Disney+?
Disney Plus is the new streaming service that houses countless of the content created by The Walt Disney Company. In it is content from Walt Disney Studios, Twentieth Century Fox, Marvel Studios, Pixar, Lucasfilm, National Geographic and more. It offers thousands of TV episodes and hundreds of movies. The service is prepared to go head-to-head with Netflix with an exclusive lineup of Marvel, Star Wars, Disney Animation, Pixar, National Geographic, and original content. Disney anticipates between 60 to 90 million subscribers to the service by 2025. It is available for pre-order on the company’s website.
Disney+ Price
On April 11 at its investor relations meeting, The Walt Disney Company announced that the streaming service would cost just $6.99/month. A Variety reporter wrote on Twitter that there were gasps in the room when the price was announced. Although, if you do prefer an annual fee, it’s $69.99 per year (which is the equivalent about $5.83/month). That’s almost half the price of a standard Netflix subscription. One more price option was announced at the August investor meeting that they will offer a bundle that includes Disney+, ESPN+, and Hulu for $12.99 a month.
Disney+ Release Date
Disney+ launched in the United States yesterday, Nov. 12, 2019. It will roll out in most major markets around the world within two years. Long, but I can’t wait!
Disney+ Features
Profile: Disney+ users can create a custom avatar for their personalized profile. And its obvious, the avatars will be characters from the Disney library. Downloading: There is an option to download Disney+ content so you can watch it whenever you’re outside of internet coverage, the company previously announced.
Disney+ Shows
In October, Disney revealed “basically everything” that users will be able to watch on Disney+. In addition to the more than 25 original series and 10 original films that will premiere on Disney+ within the first year of launch, the streaming service will also include much of Disney’s vast library of content from Walt Disney Studios, Marvel, Lucasfilm, Pixar and National Geographic. Scroll down to see some highlights or click on the tweet below to scroll through the entire announcement thread from Disney. However, You don’t need to spend 3 hours watching Disney’s video teaser. We have got your back with this complete list of every title teased by Disney+.
Disney+ Library content
Disney Animation
1930s
Pixar
1990s
Live-Action Films
1940s
Television Shows
1980s
1990s
2000s
Star Wars
Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope (1977)Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back (1980)Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi (1983)Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace (1999)Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones (2002)Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy (2004)Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith (2005)Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Series (2008)Star Wars Rebels (2014)LEGO Star Wars: The New Yoda Chronicles (2014)Lego Star Wars: Droid Tales (2015)Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures (2016)Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)Star Wars Resistance (2018)LEGO Star Wars: All-Stars (2018)The Mandalorian (2019)
Marvel
Spider-Woman (1979)X-Men – Series (1992)Fantastic Four (1994)The Incredible Hulk — Series (1996)Silver Surfer (1998)X-Men: Evolution – Series (2000)Fantastic Four: World’s Greatest Heroes (2006)Iron Man (2008)Wolverine and the X-Men (2009)Iron Man 3 (2013)Thor: The Dark World (2013)Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)Ant-Man (2015)Captain Marvel (2019)Marvel’s Hero Project (2019)
National Geographic
2000s
Disney Plus Originals
In addition to the library films and series, below is a roundup of some of the previously announced original content Disney is developing for its streaming service: High School Musical: The Musical: The Series “High School Musical” is back in a series form! The new Disney+ series follows a group of East High students as they stage their own production of “High School Musical.” Cast members include Joshua Bassett, Olivia Rodrigo, Kate Reinders and Sofia Wylie. “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” will be available to stream at launch. The Mandalorian “Bounty hunting is a complicated profession,” teases a trailer for Lucasfilm’s series “The Mandalorian,” which will be available on Disney+ at launch. “Mandalorian” stars Pedro Pascal as the title character, a lone gunfighter who has been compared to a Western or samurai hero. It co-stars Gina Carano as a character named Cara Dune and Carl Weathers as a bounty hunter named Greef. Werner Herzog and Giancarlo Esposito also co-star. Emily Swallow, Omid Abtahi and Nick Nolte will also appear in the series. Noelle Disney+ is kicking off the holiday season with “Noelle,” a film that introduces viewers to Noelle Kringle and her brother, Santa’s adult children. According to the trailer, Noelle Kringle’s brother is taking over as Santa in the film. It teases that all is not well on the North Pole as Noelle embarks on a mission to rescue her brother before Christmas. “Noelle” stars Anna Kendrick, Bill Hader, Billy Eichner, Shirley MacLaine and Julie Hagerty. Lady and the Tramp More than six decades after it first premiered, Disney is offering a new take on “Lady and the Tramp.” The trailer for the re-imagined film takes viewers into the live-action version of the 1955 animated film. The trailer teases: “Every day could be an adventure.” The re-imagined “Lady and the Tramp” will premiere on Disney+ at launch. Encore! “Encore!” reunites a group of classmates for a real-life encore, giving them the chance to perform the same musical they performed during their high school theatre years. The series, helmed by executive producer Kristen Bell, will premiere on Disney+ at launch. The World According To Jeff Goldblum “The World According to Jeff Goldblum,” is a new National Geographic series that will premiere on the Disney+ streaming service. This is a National Geographic docu-series that Disney previously said, “pulls back the curtain on a seemingly familiar object to reveal a world of astonishing connections, fascinating science, and a whole lot of big ideas.”In the trailer, Goldblum described the show as “off the beaten path,” “unexpected” and “surprising.” “One Day at Disney” book, docu-series for Disney+ Disney is telling the stories of its employees (known as “cast members”) across the globe in “One Day at Disney,” a book and companion docu-series that will stream exclusively on Disney Plus. This is how Disney described the book: “On February 21 of this year, nearly 80 different photoshoots took place all around the globe, as Disney dispatched photographers to capture images of employees and cast members who drive creativity and innovation at The Walt Disney Company. From Shanghai Disneyland and ESPN to Pixar and even the set of ABC’s Modern Family, these dazzling photographs-and the memorable stories behind them-will be featured in the hardbound, collectable book, written by Bruce Steele and now available for pre-order.” The “One Day at Disney” docu-series on Disney Plus will shine a light on some of the talented men and women bringing Disney’s most beloved stories to life. The docu-series, which will premiere on Dec. 3, chronicles everybody from the Disney Imagineer who helped bring Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge to life to the actor playing Rafiki in the Madrid production of Disney on Broadway’s “The Lion King.”
